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Chapter 210 Copper Coin Plaque
Chapter 210. Copper Coin Plaque
Hearing Rong Qiancheng's words, Ren Ping immediately understood that the so-called circle should refer to the collection circle, but he has been in the industry for less than three months, and he doesn't know any colleagues from other provinces at all, so how could he provoke them?

Seeing his frowning and pensive look, he was obviously not sure, so he didn't take it seriously, smiled, and went to accompany other guests.

The people who came this time were all friends with Ren Ping. Although they had known each other not long ago, they all came here happily when they received Rong Qiancheng's invitation, which can be said to have given him enough face.

Among them, Mayor Zhang, Tian Minru, etc. had helped him a lot, and they had no choice but to entertain him attentively.

I have been busy for a while, and when I was about to cut the ribbon, suddenly, a few more cars turned in from the street. Although I couldn't get to the door because of the crowded parking spaces, I saw the mighty formation, and it was clear that I was coming. congratulate.

Sure enough, not long after, a few people got off from each car, including men and women, old and young, and there were dozens of them in total, but most of them just stood by the car door, and only five younger ones left. come over.

Four of them divided into four corners and worked together to lift a wooden board-like thing covered with a red cloth. I don't know what it was.

Everyone saw that this group of people was playing tricks, and they didn't know what the hell was going on. The key point was that they didn't know any of them, so they couldn't help but look at each other.

"Master, you invited these too?"

Wu Zui pointed at the five people who were slowly approaching and whispered.

Rong Qiancheng shook his head: "I don't know them, and Ren Ping probably doesn't either."

"Then what are they doing here? Since when did Nanling have such a pretentious guy?"

"Silly boy, they are not from Nanling. Look at their license plate numbers."

Wu Zui turned his head as he said, and he couldn't see clearly from a distance, but he could still tell that the first letter of the license plate of those cars was not the abbreviation "Ning" of Jiangning Province, but rather a nearby province.

He immediately realized that these should be the "comrades from other provinces" that the master just said, and they came to mess up the situation.

At this time, the five people had gradually approached, and a young man in the front with delicate features, who looked to be only in his twenties, swiped at everyone and landed on Ren Ping:
"You are Ren Ping?"

This is extremely rude, but today is the reopening day of Ren's Wood Industry, and the other party is also a guest, so Ren Ping smiled: "It's me."

"Ren Ping from Ren's Wood Industry? The owner of the 'Mingquan Xiaotianlong' set more than a month ago?" "

The other party repeated it again.

Ren Ping had no choice but to nod again: "Yes, who is your Excellency?"

"You don't care who I am, we are here to give gifts today."

The young man didn't take the people in front of him seriously at all. Although he was smiling, he was very perfunctory, as if it was just a routine.

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand back: "Your company opens today, please accept this thing."

The four people behind understood, and as soon as the words fell, they tore off the red cloth from the thing in their hands.

When everyone looked at it from a distance, it turned out that the thing was not a wooden board, but a plaque with a gold frame and a lacquered red background, with the four characters "Caiyuan Guangjin" written on it, which really seemed to be a gift for congratulations.

But obviously no one here knows them?
When I got closer and took a closer look, I couldn't help being slightly surprised. It turns out that the plaque is not as simple as it looks at first glance. The words "Caiyuan Guangjin" on it are not brush characters, but copper coins with round square holes arranged one after another. There are hundreds of them.

In other words, this is a congratulatory plaque written on a copper coin!

What a gift this is!

Everyone present was an expert, and when they saw this, they immediately remembered that in the Song Dynasty, there were examples of folks using copper coins as plaques to give to opening merchants.

But that's because copper coins were the main currency at that time, even if you line up hundreds or thousands of them, it's not worth much, but now it's different, Guquan is a collectible, and those copper coins have yellow, green and copper rust from a distance, unlike now Imitation, if so, this congratulatory gift is worth hundreds of thousands at least.

Just the moral of it...

Seeing everyone frowning slightly, Wu Zui was stunned and couldn't help turning to Rong Qiancheng:
"Master, what's weird about this money? Is it fake?"

Unfortunately, the latter seemed to be staring at the plaque so intently that he didn't seem to hear it, so he had to turn to Wu Yousheng next to him.

Wu Yousheng frowned slightly: "These money should be real, but the meaning is not good."

"Bad meaning? Why?"

"This kind of copper coin plaque was popular in the Song Dynasty. It was only because the commerce was prosperous at that time, which was a rare commercial prosperity in the history of China. This kind of congratulations with great fanfare spread among the people."

"However, business declined in the next few dynasties, especially when the dynasties believed that commerce was harmful to the country, and they didn't like the ostentatious style of businessman's behavior, so they ordered to ban it. It has been rare since then."

"Business harms the country? Isn't that the old calendar from hundreds of years ago? What's the matter now?"

"You don't understand. Except for those who are in the dynasty, the literati of the past dynasties are self-proclaimed, so naturally they look down on this kind of behavior and belittle it as a businessman's bad taste. These people can make copper coins and plaques, so they naturally know these joints. "

"The reason why I gave the small bottle is to belittle him for seeing money, and secondly, the ancients talked about elegance, even if they opened their doors, they would mostly send words like 'Jinye Risheng' and 'Hongyou Dazhan', only ordinary people in the market. Just to say that the business is booming and the wealth is abundant, doesn’t that mean that Xiao Pingzi is in the circle, but he’s just an ordinary person, so he doesn’t deserve those words?”

After hearing these words, Wu Zui's three views collapsed, thinking that the ancients also had a lot of tricks, so they made all these twists and turns.

Besides, what's wrong with the businessmen? Ren Ping is a businessman to begin with, and so are most of the people present. Why do you care about these things?

He told his father these words, Wu Yousheng raised his hand and gave him a shudder:

"Stinky boy! You can tell me this kind of thing, but you can't tell it to outsiders. The collection circle is not an ordinary circle. Since you are in it, everyone has to be polite and decent, otherwise no one wants to make friends with you, and so does the small bottle. ,"

"Look, today's congratulatory gift is clearly a problem for others. It's not acceptable to accept it, or not to accept it. If he doesn't accept it well, he will inevitably make people laugh at him in the future."

Although Wu Zui didn't quite agree with it in his heart, but seeing that everyone looked like they were facing a formidable enemy, he had no choice but to admit that it was the case.

At this time, Ren Ping didn't go to pick up the plaque immediately, the young man got impatient and urged him repeatedly, but he never answered what was the origin.

Ren Ping pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Since you don't say anything, are you just passing by to see the opening of the company, and want to win a prize?"

"Yes, you say yes." The young man snorted.

"In that case, thank you very much."

Ren Ping stretched out his left hand to hold the plaque.

Just when everyone was puzzled and wondered whether he was willing to be insulted by the other party, he paused, took out a few red envelopes from his coat pocket with his right hand, and stuffed them into the young man's hand:
"They are all friends passing by. It's a little bit of meaning, not a respect."

Immediately afterwards, the four people who were carrying the plaques forced one each.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, and then roared with laughter.

Whenever someone holds a wedding or opening ceremony, there will be some scoundrels in the market asking for red envelopes in the name of congratulations, which is even more despised than the beggars begging along the street.

With Ren Ping's move, it seems that the other party is also regarded as this kind of person, which is more ruthless than the other party's belittling him for seeing money.

Sure enough, as soon as they understood this meaning, the expressions of the five people all changed, and their faces were as red as peach juice.

The young man in the lead threw the red envelope in his hand and pointed at Ren Ping:
"My surname is Ren, do you want to accept this gift or not!"

"I said thank you, but you let go."

Ren Ping looked at the five people with a grin, one hand still resting on the side of the plaque.

Before the other party could reply, Rong Qiancheng suddenly interrupted:
"My little brother, is your surname Zhuang or Fan?"

(End of this chapter)